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Originally Posted by Electronic M
That microwave system was here in Milwaukee too. One of my professors used to pirate it. He used a round metal sled for a dish, and an oscillator to hetrodyne it down to the broadcast band...Supposedly he got a clearer picture than those in his area, but he had to periodically adjust the osc. to compensate for drift.
There is no way you could get NTSC video quality over a phone line at an acceptable frame rate for TV back then.
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I think, just about anyone that had any electronics knowledge built one! The one, I built was an octagonal PC board soldered to one pound coffee can. In the old neighborhood, I lived in, you could see the building where the signal came from, so it was real easy to receive it.